The New Land

movie can have many thematic concepts, it allows you to derive your own theme that can enlighten you about an issue. Cinematographic techniques can greatly influence the structure and meaning of a film, giving you a sense of realism and involvement. New worlds, ideas and adventures are created by the different genres. When it is all put together…

Throughout one’s life, he or she will encounter an opportunity that will likely impact his or her perspective on a given situation. In Wasteland, Vik Muniz embraced the opportunity to travel to Brazil in hopes of making a difference with the pickers. Muniz traveled to the landfill in Brazil in hopes of using art to improve the lives of the pickers at the landfill. While at the landfill, he experiences the life of the pickers which helps him to create the art that will transform the lives of the…

Have you ever wondered what life would be like over the rainbow? Way up high in the lands of Oz? Have you ever wanted to know the real Wicked Witch of the West? Well then, you're in for a treat. Gregory Maguire is an American novelist born in Albany, New York in 1954. He received his PhD in English and American Literature at Tuft University. He is the author of many parallel novels and stories for both children and adults. The most famous of Maguire's novels is, without a doubt, Wicked.…

Moses” (Elwell 1327). Most scholars are in agreement that the book of Leviticus was not written as soon as it was given to Moses. Up until the 1800’s, it was widely accepted that the authorship was Moses. However, during the time of the enlightenment, “new critical theories about the origins of the Pentateuch” began to circulate which brought about several differing opinions regarding the authorship and the dating of the Pentateuch (Arnold 44). None of these theories, however, are able to hold…

Toto. After being taken away from her home, Dorothy learns that there are many places you will go but nothing can compare to the safety of your own home. Dorothy meets friends along the way in her journey through the magical land called Oz. Dorothy's journeys bring about new friends. She comes across a brainless scarecrow, a heartless Tin woodman, and a cowardly lion. The four, along with Toto, travel to the great and terrible wizard of Oz. They are in hopes of being given what they do not…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum. Its smoothing story line is filled with beloved characters that are still talked about today in many literature classes. L. Frank Baum was born in New York in 1856, when children’s books were merely stories about basic themes and silly characters. Baum received most of his early education at tutor sessions in his home. Later in his adolescent years, he was sent to the Peekskill Military Academy, where he…

activities often involve food collection and processing. Some similarities between Hadza and American culture are how protective we are. We protect our country from terrorist threats. The Hadza are protective over their land they do not appreciate people from others coming to their land to take away their means in which they sustain themselves. We are also alike in how we value family. Family is a very important to Hadza people as well in American culture family is also traced up through both…

heavily involved. Although Zionism had been an religious/emotional longing for the Holy Land tied up in Jewish culture since the Diaspora, it did not begin to become widely politicized until the 19th century. (source?) The religious revivalism of the 1700s and the early 1800s led many Americans and Europeans to be brought up on the romanticization of Holy Land, and to the Jews, Palestine had always been that land of milk and honey. in addition, the Western ideas of and interests in Palestine…

entertainer attracting 45 million viewers. The next time it was aired in 1959, it attracted even more viewers. This film is about a tornado blasting through Dorothy’s (Judy Garland) hometown in Kansas, and taking her and her dog, Toto, to an enchanting land called Oz. While there she has to follow the yellow brick…

His letter was written to his mother describing how on Christmas the British and the Germans walked out into no man's land to wish each other a Merry Christmas and to play football. They also took time to bury their dead. Joint burial services were held for German and British soldiers. Former enemies even posed for pictures to commemorate the occasion. Some also took the…